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So many huge plot holes lol


When she finally got back home she could have had Hap picked up in a matter of hours. She knows;

His profession, anesthesiologist.
He has a pilots license and owns a plane.
Make, model, and color of his vehicle.
Knows what he looks like.
Owns a house near a mine.
His local sheriff and wife recently went missing.
Deathly allergic to tomatos and has a prescription for an EpiPen.
That he traveled to Cuba twice in 1 year.

And my favorite... He DROVE her from his house or an airport he uses, so she knows where he lives/parks his plane within a few hours drive.

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I'm a human plot hole detector but I totally didn't think about any of it.

Excellent observations!

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I agree the whole story was made up and there are mistakes in the OA's story, but, where was she really all this time?

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You can say that again.

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Not a big "Plot Hole" kinda guy but how did Hap get the movements in the first place? He had switched the camera over to the heat signature (forgot the name) view and that just shows blobs of heat, not specific movements where one part of the body is in front of the other part of the body. It would just look like one big heat source.

So he shouldn't have seen the specific movement of the hands in front of the face of the old lady. And had even seen the hands in front of her face, he wouldn't have seen the specific fingers spreading apart over the eyes and then down below the other hand.

It was to fine of a movement for the heat signature to show. So he didn't have the movements. But they showed him doing them as they were doing them.

Not sure that's a plot hole but it certainly annoyed me.

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Reading your other posts, you don't really use your brain to think too much.

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man." -tBL

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I had thought of a few of those myself. I always find plot holes in shows. Not because I am trying but because it is natural. We live in the real world so if something in a show doesn't make sense/is illogical (based on our real world thinking), we question it. Still, I try not to let it eat at me and usually shrug it off. Now, I say that and then there are times a small part of me really wants it to make sense because of what I've already mentioned. If I point out why or how something did or didn't happen, my husband usually replies "dear, it wasn't in the script". That bursts my plot hole bubble and brings me back to the reality that this is just a tv show/movie.

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I had thought of a few of those myself. I always find plot holes in shows. Not because I am trying but because it is natural. We live in the real world so if something in a show doesn't make sense/is illogical (based on our real world thinking), we question it. Still, I try not to let it eat at me and usually shrug it off. Now, I say that and then there are times a small part of me really wants it to make sense because of what I've already mentioned. If I point out why or how something did or didn't happen, my husband usually replies "dear, it wasn't in the script". That bursts my plot hole bubble and brings me back to the reality that this is just a tv show/movie.

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I loved this show but there were some plot holes that stood out to me (although it also has to be said that if The OA was making up the whole story, which she could have been, then it would make sense that her story wouldn't 100% add up). That said...

- Why does Hap, who lives on his own and has a deadly tomato allergy, have tomato paste in his house in the first place? Why would he order it, and then allow a blind woman to cook his meals, knowing that it is there, and not even tell her about this issue?
- Would The OA and Homer really have saved the sheriff's wife in the circumstances? This was the big stand-out issue for me. Surely they would have said to the sheriff "this guy is holding us prisoner here against our will - arrest him and rescue us, and THEN we'll help your wife??"
- I get that she wanted to use her own methods to save her friends, but that doesn't really explain why she wouldn't also tell the police/FBI as much info as possible so that they could have a good go at catching the guy too.

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Why does Hap, who lives on his own and has a deadly tomato allergy, have tomato paste in his house in the first place?
I wondered about that as well. Is there anything one can do with it except eating it? Like... polishing shoes or whatever?
but that doesn't really explain why she wouldn't also tell the police/FBI as much info as possible so that they could have a good go at catching the guy too.
She knows how he looks. She know that a Sheriff and his wife disappeared. She has an idea about the climate and the geologic appearance of the place. That would have been more than enough to catch anyone.

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Didn't they say he had groceries delivered and it was in a vegetable broth or something? I don't really care honestly. Like life you can analyze everything to the point where it is just a waste of time.

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I don't think demanding a coherent story is unreasonable. The explaination makes sense though, he might have checked the ingredients, had he prepared his dinner on his own.

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It wasn't tomato paste, it was vegetable stock which contained tomatoes. But yes, having a severe allergy you'd read the ingredient list before you bought it.
I feel she was making the whole thing up, but then that doesn't explain the ending, she knew what was going to happen. I'm hoping season 2 has some (a lot) explanations :)

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Let's just add on to this, she gave Hap a list of ingredients to get in order to make her soup. This was likely one of the ingredients and I'm sure he didn't read what was in it before he purchased it.

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There are NO plot holes. Seriously. Just rewatch the show. At least the last episode, or the conversations with the FBI therapist.

Or rewatch 'The Usual suspects' it explains it all. Really.

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I agree with your list. I thought the FBI should have been a bit more aggressive considering there were other lives at risk. Of course, maybe the FBI is involved with protecting Hap and his work.

OA thought that they had all jumped into a new dimension. So, they were beyond help. However, how could she know that they succeeded? Illogical and irresponsible.

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I'd add that his big trump card which he flashes at Homer and Prarie whenever he has them in a situation in which they can comprimise him is the idea that the only way to get past the door to the lab is by punching in the keycode.

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You know what's annoying about the keycode threat? She's blind. She of all people would be able to recognize the order of the tones on the key code.


Number 2 he feeds them through a machine, unless he turned off the water when he took her upstairs she could have let him die and called the police.

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Was it beep beep beep beep beep beep or beep beep beep beep beep?

The touch tones on a phone have different sounds because the sounds themselves are what told the telephone switching equipment to connect to the correct number. The tones on an electronic lock all sound the same, because they are the same. They only mean that a button was pressed, not which button was pressed.

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You know what's annoying about the keycode threat? She's blind. She of all people would be able to recognize the order of the tones on the key code.
That occurred to me the first time it was mentioned, so the next time he punched in the code, I listened. All the tones were the same.

Of course, the code could have just been 1111. 😂

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Also Hap introduced himself to OA at the metro telling his very name. So she knows his full name.

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I haven't watched the whole season yet so maybe there are answers later on in the series, but why were two seemingly normal people (the OA's adoptive parents) seeking to adopt a child from a Russian Brothel?

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Because they weren't able to go about normal means based on their age.

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Because they are available ?

Do you know how difficult it is to find a child to adopt by 'legal' ways ?

(Exept if you are a pedophile celebrity / politician)

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Ummm... the point was that there was no Hap to be found. He performed the movements with the 4 remainders and they shifted away. Thus OA's need to shift to go find Homer.

Lol... when you think you have found "so many" plot holes...it usually means you've missed an obvious point.

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If Hap could do it, why didn't her five proteges shift away as well?

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So we're to believe Hap transported to an alternate dimension mere hours after dropping OA off? Such a ridiculous idea lol

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The movements only take a minute or so. How is that ridiculous?

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Because they have to be done "in unison with perfect feeling". Something tells me Hap would have a hard time syncing up the movement with the other 4 with 0 practice (as a group anyways), and convincing the other 4 to actually do the movements "with feeling", especially since he just disappeared OA. The idea Hap got home, mastered the movements with the other 4, and somehow convinced them to give it 100% in a matter of minutes is nonsense.

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Now that's a solid point. I thought you were just saying he didn't have enough time to get back and do the movements.

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He could've said that he's going to kill Prairie if they didn't put feeling into it.

He also could've not been able to pull it off. And Prairie just thinks they did. They might all still be trapped in that basement.

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Why would the other 4 do the movements with Hap? Especially since he got rid of Prairie?

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Also they had his Post Office box number. Something the FBI could have figured out in a heartbeat.

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